Oops! FEMA mistakenly tweets number for sex line, instead of disaster relief

[TexasTowelie]

While offering help to Florida residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the Federal Emergency Management Agency accidentally tweeted a phone number for a sex line.

According to the Consumerist, FEMA Region 4’s Twitter account instructed people who needed disaster relief to call 1-800-ROOF-BLU for their program called “Operation Blue Roof,” which helps homeowners repair damaged roofs.

Twitter users quickly caught the mistake, and tweeted out that the phone number was directing them to a sex hotline.

Link to tweet

“Callers who dial that number, however, are greeted by an automated message welcoming callers to ‘America’s hottest talk line,’ where ‘hot ladies’ are purportedly waiting to talk to guys, and women can talk to ‘interesting and exciting guys’ for ‘free,’” the Consumerist reports.

Read more: http://www.austin360.com/news/national/oops-fema-mistakenly-tweets-number-for-sex-line-instead-disaster-relief/YY7HwMpjHoQvtcUPDY5rhI/

[syringis]

1. So, instead of blue roof...

...they got "téléphone rose" ?

Téléphone rose (pink phone) is a French expression for phone sex line.

I don't know if you have an equivalent.

[WinkyDink]

2. We just say "phone sex line." No romanticizing it here.

[syringis]

3. I don't have any idea where the name come from.

Not that I have any experience with sex phone lines , but I never had seen them as something romantic.

[Girard442]

4. People down and out just need a hand job....errrr....hand up.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Oh my!

[DFW]

6. There was once a sort of "candid Telephone" in Holland with a theme like this

A Moroccan immigrant comedian, whose Dutch is fluent, but can speak like a recent immigrant, called up one of these sex-for-hire "escort" services.

On the phone, using his "innocent, unknowing immigrant" voice, he said his Ford Escort had broken down, and he needed someone from an Escort service to come fix his car. The woman at the sex service tried to explain to him that they did not fix cars. He protested that their ad said they provided Escort service, and he needed service for his Ford Escort. She patiently explained that their service did not fix cars. He then asked, well if your escort service doesn't fix Escorts, what service DO you provide? She told him they sent girls for sex. "Oh," he said. "Is it expensive?" She said, "yes, it is." He said, oh, too bad. She told him to call a car repair shop, and they both hung up.

How the guy managed to keep up this conversation without breaking up with laughter is beyond me.